For the second straight week, we have gone with a freshman to be in the spotlight for Southern California baseball. The SoCal softball winner is a junior who did a lot in a whopping seven games played in the week with her team. For Northern California, we have a small town slugger for baseball and […]
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State Stat Stars & Record Updates
(Click Arrows To See More Photos) It’s time to start focusing on big early-season outings in baseball & softball along with wrapping up some of the top performances ending the season in boys & girls hoops. We start in hoops with state’s top combo records (boys, girls) after CIF state final plus try to figure...
NEW Boys BB State TOP 30 Rankings
The playoff pairings for the CIF Southern Section Open Division playoffs, which contains the teams that dominate the boys basketball state rankings, are now out and there will be competitive matchups for the next two weeks. The playoff pairings in the massive section didn’t affect the state rankings much and there are some questionable placements...
All-State FB 2025: 1st Team Defense
Here are the 11 defensive players plus one punter and three of the other six multi-purpose players who have been named First Team Overall on the 48th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Football Teams. There has to be a minimum of three DLs, LBs and DBs among this group and we went with a 3-4-4. Within […]
Mr. Football 2025: Trent Mosley
The last two performances for the senior standout from Santa Margarita Catholic of Rancho Santa Margarita wound up being the difference in a close call over two others. Mosley is the first-ever winner of the state’s longest-running player of the year honor from his school, but he’s the eighth in the last 10 years from […]
2025 Football Coaching Milestones
For this year, we are going to compile the annual feature on football coaching highlights before we announce the annual state coaches of the year instead of afterwards. We also produce this feature after all of our state coaching record lists have been updated. We’re now getting close to 150 who have won 200 games […]
FINAL State TOP 75 FB Rankings (1-25)
Our final state rankings for each season take some extra time as we go over everything seen and reported since these won’t ever change and will be the rankings that go into our archives of final state rankings for every season since 1975. After the CIF state final results, Mission Viejo gets a bump to...
Santa Margarita State Team of Year 2025
While the Mater Dei-St. John Bosco era of dominance in California has ended at nine years, the Trinity League that those two teams play in has just produced a different parochial school to rule at the top of the state for another season. And the way that Santa Margarita played on both sides of the […]
Saturday CIF State Football Finals
Santa Margarita completes dominant playoff run with big win vs De La Salle to win its first CIF Open Division state title on Saturday at Saddleback College. The Eagles (11-3) just got better and better and better in every playoff game. It also capped a day in which two other undefeated teams had their seasons […]
CIF State FB Previews & Picks
We have more historical info in our archives than anyone so we have some tidbits on the teams in these games unmatched by anyone else. For the games played at Saddleback College, we have Santa Margarita, Cathedral Catholic, Central East, St. Mary’s of Stockton and Sonora as winners. It’s hard to pick a winner obviously […]
